First Clips from Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
There is a whole lot of buzz around Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler. Starring Mickey Rourke as a washed our wrestler, the film which recently premiered at Venice, is being praised left and right with Rourke’s performance being touted as “iconic.”
Before the film premiered, it looked like it could be a while before we had a chance to see it but considering the praise it and Rourke are getting, I would not be surprised to hear it was snatched up and hurried for limited distribution to meet the Oscar cutoff. It’s a guess but certainly not unexpected or unheard of.
Until this point, we haven’t seen much from the production but the boys at CHUD have uncovered a short video which features some extracts from the film intercut with interviews with Aronofsky and Rourke. It doesn’t give much to go on but I was interested before and I’m even more interested now. I don’t recall if this film was on the list for either John or Kurt but you may also want to keep tuned to Film Junk’s coverage of the festival because this one is definitely on Greg’s watch list.












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